1961 Topps Baseball Cards

The 1961 Topps baseball card set includes 587 standard size cards, measuring 2½" by 3½". The subsets for the 1961 Topps baseball cards are the League Leaders (cards 41-50), World Series Highlights (401-410), MVPs (471-486) and All-Stars (566-589).

The 1961 Topps set has more than its share of design mistakes. The last card in the set, Warren Spahn was mistakenly given #589, skipping cards #587 & #588. The Braves Team Card was supposed to been given #426, but was mistakenly given card #463, along with the other #463 Jack Fisher.